Word: gout
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...unassumed, penetrating judgment of people and situations, the well-balanced poise of mind, which is found among old and very honorable people." To Conrad, "she was wife, mother and guardian, besides being his secretary and assistant in his work." During Conrad's frequent bouts with acute malaria and gout, he could endure no nursing except hers (though, with a desperate man's hunger for any conceivable "cure," he for a long time carried "raw potatoes on his person, with the idea that they would collect all the poisonous fluid accumulated in his body...
...pornographic maiden attacked by a shepherd. He had had plenty of practice when he received from the King of Spain an order for 112 pictures on Ovid's Metamorphoses ("Never has any painter received so gigantic a commission"). Before he finished, the King ordered 24 more. Then gout caught Rubens' hands. Paralysis followed. When he died, he proudly left his family four million guilders. "I love life," he had once observed, "for life is good, but I love prudently...
...nothing dramatic for Mr. Chamberlain. He was tall and stringy, with the distinction of being the only British statesman who could sing Negro spirituals (learned as a young man when he was trying to raise sisal in the Bahamas), and the biggest feet in the Cabinet. He also had gout and bunions. Clement Attlee once said that Chamberlain's smile reminded him of the silver handles of a coffin. A kindlier woman said his eyes were "cold and smiling, like a Scandinavian river...
After 29 years of public life gaunt, gout-ridden Neville Chamberlain retired last week to nurse his failing health. To the once bitterly critical Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, who succeeded him as Prime Minister, Chamberlain addressed a letter in the tone of the adviser and friend he had become in recent months. It began "Dear Winston," explained his reasons for retiring, concluded "Yours ever." "Dear Winston" replied with equal gallantry in the prose for which history undoubtedly will remember...
...Orange and Black symbolize the combination of golden sunshine to light the way to learning, and darkness to shut out snobbishness. That's why I pick Princeton to beat Harvard at anything." --Princeton Sunday News. (Ed. note: Roses are red, violets are blue-- Chaque personne a son propre gout...